From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Can emacs be made to right Messages buffer to disc? Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:56:36 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87hcb7aadn.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87y74ouxqq.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215057446 13475 80.91.229.12 (3 Jul 2008 03:57:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 03:57:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 03 05:58:12 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KEFxU-0004zy-1r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:58:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45647 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KEFwd-0005hi-Hx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:57:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KEFwG-0005dn-SG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:56:56 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KEFwF-0005cS-S9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:56:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55933 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KEFwF-0005c9-No for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:56:55 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:47991 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KEFwF-0003vq-AH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:56:55 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KEFw9-000518-Is for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:56:49 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-162-73-42.hsd1.il.comcast.net ([67.162.73.42]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:56:49 +0000 Original-Received: from reader by c-67-162-73-42.hsd1.il.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:56:49 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 43 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-162-73-42.hsd1.il.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ngjJEADhoU6IWM48hN96eMTDt0M= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:55209 Archived-At: Kevin Rodgers writes: > reader@newsguy.com wrote: >> I asked this question when emacs 21 was current and if I recall there >> was some horribly complicated (requiring coding and good knowledge of >> elisp) way to do it. >> >> I wondered if with 22 or even 23 one can write the \*Messages\* buffer >> to disc as a session progresses any easier than before? > > I vaguely remember that thread, but I couldn't find it on the web. In > any case, I think it's not too complicated (everything worth doing in > Emacs requires a basic knowledge of Emacs Lisp): [...] snipped the nice example... thanks. Nice... thank you. I have to beg to differ on one point and I'm sure you meant no harm with it... >. . . . . . . . . . . . . (everything worth doing in > Emacs requires a basic knowledge of Emacs Lisp): Not so... I have only a vague knowledge of emacs lisp and have managed to use emacs in useful ways every day (or nearly so) for at least 10 yrs. Much to the chagrin of this list.. I imagine,ue to the ill-informed questions I've often posed here. I always think I'm going to take out the time to learn some elisp but have just never done it. Its not really due to laziness or at least not only laziness either. Seems something more immediate always comes up. Further I haven't found a nifty way into the learning part like I have with perl or shell scripting where I've needed to learn a little of each to admin my home machines and my videography (hobby/business). In those cases, with a basic knowledge of shell scripting I've been able to learn a fair bit of perl by seeing code and asking lots of questions. ... not so with elisp. The question part never fails on this list, but I've never been able to look at the code and sort of start to see how it works. Then sort of ease right into useful coding.